Overview
Prescription Pattern of Adjuvant Drugs and Vitamins in Patients Undergoing Long-term Home Nutritional Support for Intestinal Insufficiency
Status:
Completed
Completed
Trial end date:
2012-09-01
2012-09-01
Target enrollment:
0
0
Participant gender:
All
All
Summary
Intestinal insufficiency due to short bowel syndrome is a chronic, disabling condition with significant morbidity and mortality.Standard care includes home parenteral/enteral nutrition as well as intestinal transplantation, however multiple drugs, vitamins, antibiotics and symptom-relieving agents may be required. Prescriptional pattern of these drugs will be analyzed in a clinical cohort.Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
NoDetails
Lead Sponsor:
University of Sao PauloTreatments:
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Gastrointestinal Agents
Vitamins
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Home nutritional support longer than 12 months,full records and returnvisits available at the hospital system.
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Exclusion Criteria: Critical illness, death, discontinuation of nutritional therapy,
registered for intestinal transplantation, additional gastrointestinal operations for short
bowel syndrome (valves, lengthening) or for other conditions (gallbladder disease,
intestinal obstruction, necrosis, infection).
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